IN: WellPoint Customer Information Exposed

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5684827.html

Personal information that may have included Social Security numbers and 
pharmacy or medical data for about 128,000 WellPoint Inc. customers in 
several states was exposed online over the past year, the health insurer 
said Tuesday.

WellPoint, which has had other data security issues in the past, recently 
learned about the problem, fixed it and is notifying customers, 
spokeswoman Shannon Troughton said. The nation's largest health insurer by 
membership is offering free credit-monitoring services for those 
customers, but has received no reports of identity theft or credit fraud.

The latest security lapse stems from two servers maintained by an outside 
vendor that Troughton declined to identify. The vendor specializes in data 
management.

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